the nsa scandal is, of course, one of the issues discussed here. but european or euro crisis matters don't -- are not discussed at all among politicians. angela merkel tries to downplay it, of course, because that little bit of topic can spill over quite a bit of insecurities to her election campaign because there's, of course, rumors that after the election we'll hear the whole truth about the size of the problem in greece and we'll see a new haircut. but so far both parties, as well the social democrats. steinbruck was saying there won't be any new -- the christian democrats are saying there's no reason we should speculate about that. so european politics are nonexistent here. >> that's really interesting. thank you so much for that. >>> let's get back to zane brown, fixed economic strategist at lord abbott. what is the biggest risk emanating from the german elections? >> well, i think everybody will be quite comfortable. global investors will be comfortable with angela merkel. and any change from that introduces a fair amount of uncertainty for